What is it?

Wallpaper is really a graphic that covers your screen or desktop. It may be a photograph or any other graphic or even a repeating pattern. Wallpaper graphics can be centered, stretched and tiled on the screen. Most of the wallpaper graphics are in the JPG format, especially if they are photographs or contain many colors. On Windows computers they may also come in the BMP format but that file format occupies much more space on the hard drive. When the graphic is a pattern of some type it is usually in the GIF format although it may be a JPG. We cereate all sorts of wallpaper graphics. Most of our wallpaper graphics are digital photographs, but we create artificial digital patterns and graphics for this purpose as well. When a graphic is a pattern it is usually of small dimensions and is designed to be tiled on the screen. These types of graphics are most often used on web sites but may be used on desktops as well.

When wallpaper graphics are meant to be displayed as one large image, meaning no tiling or stretching is used, the resolution is important. Computer screens come with various resolutions. For example, today most CRT monitors come with at least 800X600 resolution. Most flat panels and laptops come with at least 1024X768. Older computers used as little as 640X480. These numbers refer to pixels wide by pixels high on your screen. The resolution depends on the monitor used as well as the video card. If you display a 640X480 image on a 1024X768 screen the picture will not fill the entire screen. To compensate for this it may be either tiled or stretched. However, if these numbers are reversed then the image will be larger than the screen and it will spill over outside the screen. In other words, it will not be visible in its entirety. This may be fixed as well by applying the "stretch" effect to the wallpaper. That way the image is shrunk to fit the screen.

We produce wallpaper graphics in excess of 1024X768 and never below with an exception of tiling graphics. The reason for this is that all high resolution graphics may be resized to lower resolutions without losing quality, but going in the other direction always results in loss of quality and sharpness of the image.

Please visit the wallpaper section in our portfolio to see some samples.